Cecilie Bingham
Department: Human Resource Management (HRM)
Position: Senior Lecturer
Location: Room C179B, Marylebone
Contact:
+44 (0) 207911 5000 ext. 3492
binghac@westminster.ac.uk
Education
MA Industrial Relations (Warwick)
BA Applied Social Science (Lanchester Polytechnic)
Professional memberships
BUIRA
ILT
Associate researcher with the Work Foundation
Biography
Cecilie (whose relationship with the University goes back to the late seventies, when it was the Polytechnic of Central London) is a full-time senior lecturer in Human Resource Management within Westminster Business School. She teaches post- and under-graduates HRM, employee relations and organisational behaviour. The majority of her current teaching is on postgraduate courses and she is module leader for employee relations on the CIPD accredited MAPD. In addition she is project supervisor for a number of students on the MAHRM. MAPD and MBA. Seda accredited and a member of the ILT, her emphasis in teaching is on blending theory with practice. She encourages interaction in the classroom and attention is drawn to the importance of diagnosing the causes of problems before ascertaining the most appropriate managerial tools to solve them.
Until recently Cecilie was the Commissioning Editor for The Work Foundation's monthly flagship publication Managing Best Practice. She commissioned and carried out research, for such titles as: Managing Innovation, Flexible Working Patterns, Occupational Stress, Promoting Wellbeing, Managing Change, Whistleblowing, Training Evaluation, Senior Management Development and Netiquette.
During this time, she also acted as Script Advisor on the award-winning 'A Question of Discipline' video for the Industrial Society and for the appraisal video, 'Managing Performance'.
During this time, she also acted as Script Advisor on the award-winning 'A Question of Discipline' video for the Industrial Society and for the appraisal video, 'Managing Performance'.
Returning from a 15-year career break during which she combined teaching refugee women English with bringing up her three children, she worked part time for Westminster Business School and collected data for the Industrial Society's benchmarking service. At this time she researched into examples of 'best practice' employee policies that formed the basis for the Society's Best Practice Direct library, collecting more than 400 policies, and writing case notes on these. Some of the best practice examples were subsequently used by the DTI on their website. Much of her time was spent advising companies and acting as a go-between persuading better companies to help those that were less able.
Before her career break Cecilie worked for Incomes Data Services as a journalist and senior researcher. Working on a number of publications including IDS Brief and IDS Report she was solely responsible for editing, writing and researching the quarterly IDS Report Supplement, Collective Bargaining, which looked at trends and patterns in collective bargaining in the private and public sector.
Research
Investigating the extent of changes, if any, that UK-based organisations have made since September 11th 2001 to the ways in which they develop and implement contingency planning for potential risks to their normal functioning.
Investigating the strategic changes, if any, that UK organisations make to the ways in which they communicate with their workforce once they have agreed to recognise trade unions for bargaining, consultation and employee representation.